WILL IT CHUG? - BOSS DS-1 DISTORTION 

Most awesomely shitty pedal of all time! I love it!

olaaaaaaa ! yay

Ola Englund 1.21 GIGAWATTS !!!

Ola Englund I’m glad your thumb is ok so you can play once again

Sounds pretty punk to be fair.

There was no other

Youd proper shit your pants!

Maybe that's how bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest were born? I'm no expert but the timeline checks out. Scientists created pedals that chugged and metal was born. Oddly enough 1978 was also the year of the ProCo Rat.

Has everyone forgotten that fuzz pedals were around for over a decade? It was also well-known that using a Treble Booster into amps and fuzzes would give a tight distortion sound.

People in 1978 listening to sultans of swing be like "what the actual heck"

The chug is in the 5150

@@niallooo not in the clean channel that he's using, it isn't.

It didn't chug

What does "chug" mean. Could you explain? Thanks

@@samrotschild Watch the video where he plays the Apex Preamp and listen to the differences

That's the name of a real pedal...

@@ProCoRat EHX baby

Hahahahah

Please someone make a pedal called English muffin

do not like his comment

What boss was it though?

Chris G Ornstein and Smough-la from Prepare to Chug Edition

Haha yeah, searching "ds1 boss" will do that

Thats funny I bought dark souls because I was looking for a ds1 mod

You still playin?

True

i was thinking the exact same thing! 🤪 try it with a $100 amp and show us the real pedal sound 🤣🤣🤣

He uses the clean channel

try with belcat ampli 😆

I plug it into a fender hot rod deluxe and it chugs pretty nicely

I'd buy

Great idea

Here... Take it 👉👑

🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻

😂

How Irish are you?

I'm sure there was many beers drunk that night for Ola.

I mean, it certainly "could" be...

Do they drink beer in Sweden? I thought that was vodka country.

@@xangrycatmanx5104 yes

I got this pedal yesterday hoping it would just make my clean tone sound chuggy but figured this out toying around honestly really like the pedal using it the way you said

@andre I tried it the way you’re saying and need to experiment more with it that way. I’m not sure if I tried one in the late 70’s, everybody was telling me to get a Rat at the time so that’s what I did. Late last summer or early this year is the first time I bought and really tried one. Found one for $35. I actually like the tones with the gain and tone lower-has a nice low to mid gain overdrive and doesn’t squash the low end like a Tube Screamer does. Full gain with tone to taste is a little like fuzz. My theory is-see what a pedal does on its own first. A pedal really should stand on its own and it does that but only to a point. It’s pretty scooped so when add mids on a graphic EQ it’s better. I’ll try it with a little gain some more. Thanks!

its funny how the Metalzone works better as an amp-in-a-box than the DS1 does haha.

exactly...thats the way its made to be used...with a dirty amp nt clean.

It stacks beautifully with a BOSS SD-1. That combo intio an amp on the edge of breakup is a beautiful thing.

Pannemat most agile! Cheers!

He actually usef a ds2 at that gig if you looked closely. But it's an amazing tone too

@@spiritoftime8464 Well, yeah, but he never turned on the turbo, so it's basically the same thing

@@randomguy263 not true, they are different circuits all together

@@randomguy263 common misconception

Type O Negative

Ho boy...it's the Clean Tone Police...

Don't call it that 😂

@@sylfan1 Yet he always forget to rectify his rectum clean.

Lol i agree with you normally. But this is actually pretty clean. It’s weird that people are actually siding with fluff about his clean tone though.

this made me laugh a little too hard

You can also use the DS-1 as a boost for an amp with decent results

I like having a EQ in front of a ds-1 to boost low end, and mid frequency. I keep the time knob on the ds-1 at around 2/3 o'clock.

Got um both yellow n orange ds1 sd1are the years there made signifigant?

I made one chug without any kind of boost

Guys, just place these pedals on the next chain: Boss CS3 compressor + Boss DS1 Distortion + Boss GE7 Equalizer. you won't need anything else to make it sound as you wanted.

Wtf every part of this comment is me rn

Slipknot you say? I just got this pedal and kindly ask you on how to achieve that slipknot sound. I'd really appreciate it.

@@eliplaysguitar4634 bruh this is so weird that's exaclty my setup too lmao

This was my first setup in 2006: RG->DS-1->Solid state fender amp

My man, use an IR loader. Will sound 10000000x better.

Paul Leach jazz chorus integrated distortion is atrocious

bwahahahaha

Finally....

Jazz Chorus built in dist is no good. Pedal dist into jc will sound better

My 'JCM120' is fuckin brutal with ISP Theta preamp/distortion! Found out by accident, lol

Al Cisneros of Sleep uses it too.

@@ripdeth didnt know that. That explains a lot about their sound. Gives me some more appreciation for Sleep

My parents (about 20 years ago) got me a bass but I really wanted a guitar. 50 bucks later, distorted bass. Played that mfkr like a guitar lol

Sweet. Makes me want it more. I'm getting 1

Dang I started using one as a boost for my bass too just to get more tone out of it

@J Thorsson YES

To get the proper tone u also have to do the bass setup, otherwise it doesn't sound right.

That would be freaking awesome, yes yes yes!

YES!

Yes please

It definitely is a great pedal, there's a reason so many top guitarists use them. Some people who think it sucks don't get how to use it right. Like if it's a beginner guitarist with a ds-1 and practice amp they use it incorrectly and forever think its bad. Like with small solid state amps you need to turn the volume on the pedal way down and turn up the amp volume, otherwise the ds-1 can overdrive the practice amp, which sounds terrible with bad solid state amps. Keep the volume on the pedal way down and it can sound glorious even with that kinda set up. Or just eventually get a tube amp and it will sound great.

@@duffman18 They are like 15-20 usd at pawn shops, so I'd agree that for a first pedal this is a great choice.

@@duffman18 You mean Ola is using it wrongly?

@@tommykaira8775 no because he made it sound good. Granted he could probably make anything sound good. But even so that's just because he's using it properly. It's like his video about the Metal Zone, and he made that thing sound fantastic, just simply by having sensible settings and plugging it in the effects loop instead of through the front. These pedals get shit on a lot by snobs and people who don't know what they're talking about, and also people who own boutique pedal companies and want to rip you off. But Ola actually knows what he's doing, and he's the furthest thing from a snob. He goes by the rule, "it it sounds good, it IS good". Which is the only rule in music that matters.

@@duffman18 damn true

Oh we know the pedal is good, but does Satriani chug? No, he does not.

Now I need it

Actually, his Satchurator is based on DS1, so if the boss chugs, the Satch pedal should as well.

@@SlyMan420 He does not chug, he shreds.

Lmao

For 1978, that's not too bad haha

lmao gottem

When Ola started the "Oh shit it actually sounds good" all i can think about is a guy born and rised in Sweden in the 80s... This is like his kindergarden lullaby.

The classic High School Tone

Grunge was 90’s. Thank goodness it stayed and died there quickly

@@AudaciousAce1989 You are absolutely right. Grunge sucks.

Lol. Tuner hah

Chug in tune? Yes.

That is what I do with mine, to me the pedal sounds horrible on its own, but with a overdrive added sounds amazing.

Or the equipment he tests are all for rock and metal and chug regardless. Turning up the one single level knob takes absolutely zero expertise at all. Its what it was designed to do: provide distortion, and in other cases: overdrive. Distortion= what makes things chug. There is literally nothing special about Ola, sorry to burst your bubble

He was unable to make Dark Matter chug.

You're tone deaf. Please puncture your eardrums with a large screw driver thank you very much.

@@nibbadelicious3918 what? 😂😂😂

@@xalalalala I am picking on random fellow metalheads man. I broke my fucking back I can't play guitar for 6 months doctor said. I hate my fucking life. I wish I just died.

@@nibbadelicious3918 oh man sorry to hear that. I hope you'll get well soon enough. Take care man!

@@xalalalala Thanks man.. meanwhile I just watch others play. My friend insists I go to a concert with her in this condition. I can walk but not without severe pain. Let's see.

ds1+od(or any tube screamer) is a way better than deathmetal pedal

Try a distortion+. Will not disappoint, I promise.

this actually makes a lot of sense

most underrated? this is Cobain's pedal and this is the third place on Thomann

think of this like *the dark side of the moon* of pedals

Sounds like shit

You'll need to mod it to make it a good overdrive. Though, just buy a SD1 instead.

Did Steve use the DS-1 into the Clean Channel in his Carvin X-100B, or into the Dirt Channel, and use the DS-1 as a boost?

Vai used his as a boost, just like Satriani.

David Smith it's not fair to compare anything Steve Vai does with the rest of us mortals

He went into the lead channel of the legacy with it. Many vids on his rigs with this pedal

paul andrews Steve vai is pretty mortal. Don’t put a man on a pedestal just because of his skills.

me neither

Same

Punch Jensen for me, blame me, he will know who it is

Lmao ironic that a $80 stomp box could sound like that gigantic £4k+ Mesa Triaxis/IIC+ rig JP was using 😂

I immediately heard Lie when he started to chug lol

It sounded like that because Ola was chugging on a low B chord, the same as the riff of The Mirror, which was just a B chord chugged in different ways.

@@kennhern the guitar part is actually the exact same thing throughout the whole intro. The drums change around it to make you interpret it in different ways.

@@TheCoolSquare yeah nah, its accented differently

Finally, someone else on here who knows how to use a ds1

@@progulator3207 Exactly man, the DS-1 just needs that little push from the distorted channel and it'll roar like nothing else, especially at those settings.

I’ve used it to get a purposely tinny sound doing a cover of Rebel Rebel, but that was at like 1:00 at most.

Nah not even Kurt Cobain would go past noon.

The tone knob on a DS-1 needs to be adjusted relative to where the distortion knob has been set. When you have all knobs set to noon, this is sort of the default DS-1 EQ curve. When you increase distortion past noon, it will add treble frequencies which need to be filtered away through dialing back the tone knob. If you have your distortion set lower than noon, you're removing some treble frequencies, which must then be added back in by increasing the tone knob. The DS-1 will sound roughly the same with the distortion all the way down and the tone at two o'clock as it does with the distortion at full and the tone at ten o'clock. These two extremes will give you the same base tone as the DS-1 would have with all knobs at noon, only with different amounts of gain. I've never found any reason to set the tone any lower than ten o'clock or any higher than two o'clock. Understanding this relationship between those two knobs is important in dialing in a useful drive sound from this pedal.

Does 80s punk & scum tones up in that range. Sort of like the Chainsaw in that it's supposed to sound like ass

@@fpsknifer9906 That is the best explanation I have seen. Ties in with most vids that roll the tone down to around 10 o'clock with distortion past 12.

pearljaime2 my first pedal ever 😂

THAT PEDAL SOUNDS MORE LIKE ALICE N CHAINS SOUND GARDEN ETC IT DOES CHUG BUT ITS SO SENSITIVE ON CERTAIN AMP IT NEEDS AN EQUALIZER IT SOUNDS OK ON CERTAIN AMPS BUT OTHERS IT SOUNDS LIKE CRAP IT MAKES MY 100 WATT CRATE HEAD SOUND QUITE DECENT THOUGH ITS OK ON A PEAVEY SUPREME BUT ION MY MARSHALL I CANT QUITE GET IN THE ZONE U JUST HAVE TO EXPERIMENT ON WHAT AMP IT SOUNDS GOOD AND FOOL WITH THE SETTINGS USUALLY BASS ON QUARTER AND AND TREBLE ABOUT 3 OCLOCK GAIN ABOUT 12 WILL SOUND OK ANYTHING ELSE TO MUDD.Y I LIKE MY METAL ZONE BETTER IT SOUNDS GOOD ON ANY AMP ALSO TRY A MODTONE EXTREME METAL ITS A NICE LITTLE METAL PEDAL GETS A GREAT TONE AND THEY CAN BE FOUND CHEAP

@@thrashfan4ever ok but can you not cap all the letters?

od2 is better i have it kinda sounds more like a distortion pedal than a n overdrive its more over the top then the sd1 i prefer it i might get a sd1 and stack two overdrives on a clean channel just like christ olivia of savatage he also used a laney pro tube aor 50 with el34 tubes on clean with two boss sd1 pedals thats how i got part of his tones that and his hands

Does she chug?

@@florisoudshoorn97 she can chug chocolate milk

I'm sure everybody who clicks on these videos hates Nirvana (except for me), but Kurt Cobain used a DS-1; he thought it was "the main factor in his tone." John Frusciante uses a DS-2. They're good pedals.

I know man. Stick em through good amps and they rarely disappoint.

Can you explain this? Over my head.

Also Pro Co RAT.

I used the distortion to distort the distortion

😂😂😂😂

Kurt used a ds1 a lot

Lol that's too accurate

loved and hated that pedal. Scratchiest chuggs youll ever hear!

I had one and that pedal could transform an acoustic amp into a fire-breathing, chugging beast. It's not cute or friendly, but fuck that thing does chug.

Mine 2 ...my first and last

Same here, but DS-2

Florida Death metal has my heart